mac80211: prevent possible crypto tx tailroom corruption
authorMichal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Fri, 22 May 2015 08:22:40 +0000 (10:22 +0200)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Fri, 29 May 2015 11:04:46 +0000 (13:04 +0200)
commitab499db80fcf07c18e4053f91a619500f663e90e
treebf05b367ff55e2c83955485ba836143c0b9b6ed2
parent80279fb7ba5b71981a60988b0307afa43f78f6b1
mac80211: prevent possible crypto tx tailroom corruption

There was a possible race between
ieee80211_reconfig() and
ieee80211_delayed_tailroom_dec(). This could
result in inability to transmit data if driver
crashed during roaming or rekeying and subsequent
skbs with insufficient tailroom appeared.

This race was probably never seen in the wild
because a device driver would have to crash AND
recover within 0.5s which is very unlikely.

I was able to prove this race exists after
changing the delay to 10s locally and crashing
ath10k via debugfs immediately after GTK
rekeying. In case of ath10k the counter went below
0. This was harmless but other drivers which
actually require tailroom (e.g. for WEP ICV or
MMIC) could end up with the counter at 0 instead
of >0 and introduce insufficient skb tailroom
failures because mac80211 would not resize skbs
appropriately anymore.

Fixes: 8d1f7ecd2af5 ("mac80211: defer tailroom counter manipulation when roaming")
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
net/mac80211/main.c